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Review: Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910–1950 , by Martin Kohlrausch

2020; University of California Press; Volume: 79; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.344

2150-5926

Christina E. Crawford,

Urbanization and City Planning

Book Review| September 01 2020 Review: Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910–1950, by Martin Kohlrausch Martin KohlrauschBrokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910–1950 Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019, 400 pp., 16 color and 77 b/w illus. $65 (paper), ISBN 9789462701724 Christina E. Crawford Christina E. Crawford Emory University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2020) 79 (3): 344–346. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.344 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Christina E. Crawford; Review: Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910–1950, by Martin Kohlrausch. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2020; 79 (3): 344–346. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2020.79.3.344 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Helena Syrkus is looking at you. The glossy white, painted-steel wall behind Syrkus and her company—Sigfried Giedion on the left, Le Corbusier on the right—render the setting immediately recognizable to scholars of interwar modernism: she is on the SS Patris II, the Mediterranean cruise ship chartered to serve as the mobile site for the fourth meeting of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne in 1933 (Figure 1).1 Helena and her husband, Szymon Syrkus, were among five architects in the Polish delegation who presented their collaborative planning for Warsaw in light of the congress's Functional City theme. The Syrkuses, who both held prominent positions in CIAM and on its executive committee, CIRPAC, are likely unknown even to those who recognize the Patris II at a glance. Helena Syrkus's steady gaze, and her centrality in the photographic frame, offers a direct challenge to the peripheral position of East Central... You do not currently have access to this content.